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.claude/skills/aod-lens/SKILL.md

aod-lens is a skill for Claude Code from davidmatousek/tachi. It costs 93 tokens per session (857 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A thinking-method router that chooses from 14 structured ways to examine a problem. These include methods for finding root causes, testing assumptions, weighing options, and identifying risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate failures, assess risks, compare choices, find bottlenecks, challenge a proposal, or understand how parts of a system affect one another.
Why use it?
It gives a repeatable way to reason about difficult decisions instead of relying only on an initial impression. The selected method matches the kind of question being asked.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is davidmatousek/tachi's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on tachi itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything tachi configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to davidmatousek/tachi. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davidmatousek/tachi/main/.claude/skills/aod-lens/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidmatousek/tachi

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 857 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00093 $0.00857
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00428
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00086

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6e9b813d8c2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aod-lens scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • aod-lens — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
.claude/skills/aod-lens/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thinking Lens Skill

Router that selects and applies thinking methodologies from docs/core_principles/.

Keyword → Lens Routing

Keywords Lens File
"failed", "broke", "why did", "root cause" 5 Whys 01-FIVE_WHYS_METHODOLOGY.md
"assumptions", "fundamentally", "from scratch" First Principles 02-FIRST_PRINCIPLES.md
"risks", "could go wrong", "before we start" Pre-Mortem 03-PRE_MORTEM.md
"guarantee failure", "avoid", "anti-patterns" Inversion 04-INVERSION.md
"prioritize", "most value", "80/20" Pareto Analysis 05-PARETO_ANALYSIS.md
"architecture", "interact", "components" Systems Thinking 06-SYSTEMS_THINKING.md
"consequences", "downstream", "side effects" Second-Order Effects 07-SECOND_ORDER_EFFECTS.md
"blocked", "bottleneck", "dependencies" Constraint Analysis 08-CONSTRAINT_ANALYSIS.md
"challenge", "critique", "wrong with this" Devil's Advocate 09-DEVILS_ADVOCATE.md
"compare", "choose between", "options" Comparative Analysis 10-COMPARATIVE_ANALYSIS.md
"trade-off", "giving up", "sacrifice" Opportunity Cost 11-OPPORTUNITY_COST.md
"explain", "purpose", "why does this exist", "complete picture" Four Causes 12-FOUR_CAUSES.md
"going through motions", "process theater", "cargo cult", "actually working", "vibe coding" Cargo Cult Detection 13-CARGO_CULT_DETECTION.md
"how much", "balance", "calibrate", "sweet spot", "too much", "too little", "spectrum" Golden Mean 14-GOLDEN_MEAN.md

Workflow

  1. Route: Match user keywords to lens using table above
  2. Load: Read full methodology from docs/core_principles/[FILE]
  3. Apply: Follow the step-by-step process and use template from that file

If ambiguous, ask:

"Would you like to focus on risks (Pre-Mortem), root cause (5 Whys), or trade-offs (Opportunity Cost)?"

Quick Reference

Problem Type Lens
Something failed 5 Whys
Planning something risky Pre-Mortem
Choosing between options Comparative Analysis
Understanding a system Systems Thinking
Prioritizing work Pareto Analysis
Understanding why something exists Four Causes
Checking if a practice is actually working Cargo Cult Detection
Finding the right balance/amount Golden Mean
Not sure Pre-Mortem (safest default)

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 63 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 6e9b813d8c2c

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aod-lens is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidmatousek/tachi (91 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 857 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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